You can edit, remove, or add a new key combination for your VM in just a few steps. You can also use and customize keyboard shortcuts for switching between Coherence, Full Screen, and Window view modes, and for showing and hiding Parallels Desktop in the Application Shortcuts menu, which I’ll cover in a moment. To see and customize your keyboard shortcuts, go to the Parallels Desktop menu in the top Mac menu bar, choose Parallels Desktop → Preferences → Shortcuts, and select your VM from the list. That way, if you’re used to pressing Cmd+C to copy text in Mac OS X, you don’t have to switch to the Windows equivalent, Ctrl+C. This menu is extremely useful for the keyboard shortcuts that require keys which aren’t present on a standard Mac keyboard.Ĭustomizing Keyboard Shortcuts with Parallels Desktopīy default, Parallels Desktop maps common Mac OS X keyboard shortcut key combinations to the equivalent Windows key combinations. You can also use these shortcuts by choosing Devices menu → Keyboard and selecting a key combination. To activate a keyboard shortcut, simply press a key combination on your keyboard. Looking to use your favorite keyboard shortcuts on your Mac and in your Windows virtual machine? No problem! Parallels Desktop lets you configure your keyboard shortcuts to work the way you want both on your Mac and Windows.

I'll save this hack for another post.Guest blog by Manoj Dhanasekar, Parallels Support Team If I ever need to change my laptop, I will be able to quickly restore my settings. I created a git repo in the ~/Library/Services directory and pushed it to a private repository on GitHub. You see the gear icon appear in the menu bar for a brief moment. Press one of the shortcut keys you created. Scroll all the way down in the right pane until you see the new scripts you've just created.Ĭlick Add shortcut and press the key combination you want to assign for each of the services.

Open Keyboard in System Preferences or by typing “Keyboard” into the Spotlight search box. We will set up keyboard shortcuts, so we can easily run those scripts. Assign keyboard shortcutsĬustom Automator scripts are called “services” and are shown in the Keyboard shortcut settings. You can remap keys using the following command in the terminal. Now, there a simple brute-force solution in Eugene Petrenko's post. and International layouts to easily alternate between keyboards. In this post, I'll show you how to get the tilde where it belongs, next to the “1” key, and how to switch between U.S. Mac keyboards, the tilde key is (mis)placed next to the left Shift button. Fix the tilde key on Mac with Automator and keyboard shortcuts

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